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| On 9th May 1950 Robert Schumann changed dramatically european history by promoting a European state |
On 9th May 1950 french Foreign Affairs minister Robert Schumann proposed the creation of a new european organisation to control and manage french and german coal and steel production opening
this new organisation to every euorpean country wanting to be part of it. Coal and steel were raw materials for war and so this idea represented material impossibility of war between France and Germany by giving the control of this materials to a new supranational body. By making war absolutely impossible between France and Germany Schumann's purpose paved the way towards reconciliation, peace and stability not only between France and Germany but between all european countries, building material conditions for development and prosperity through a common market for coal and steel. Schumann Plan was absolutely revolutionary making a dramatic positive change to the history of a continent defined by isolation, powerty, bitterness and war overcoming nation-state in order to build a new, open, pacific and prosperous european state. Nation-state legitimity was based on territory and so a mandatory neeed for expansion through war, but this new european state legitimity would be based on market and so in trade as a mean for pacific expansion. Moreover european common market on coal and steel would not be only positive for Europe but for the entire world globalizing economic prosperity, stability and peace by unifing all national trade barriers in a only european tariff trade barrier lower than the previous nation-state barriers.

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